$14M in city bonds to pay for Antioch hockey rink

3:32 AM,
Jun. 18, 2013

Aerial perspective of a proposed hockey facility at the former Hickory Hollow Mall.

Written by

Eva Botkin-Kowacki
| The Tennessean

The city of Nashville is planning to issue $14 million in bonds to build a new hockey center in Antioch.

The new center, along with a new community center, fitness center and library, is designed to help boost the former Hickory Hollow Mall, which largely closed last year after years of falling sales. Other nearby retailers also closed as people left the area for new shopping destinations.

With the mall reopened as the Global Mall at the Crossings, the community projects - which will cost a total of $32 million - are designed to help bolster the surrounding community. ...